God’s medicine for pride.
God’s medicine for pride.
Dear reader, God has for every Christian some medicine for pride. Unfortunately, most Christians do not know where to find this medicine. In this article I show what God’s medicine for pride is, and where you can find it.
How the Lord showed me this medicine.
More than ten years ago I and my wife went for the burial of a friend’s mother. It is always my practice to keep time at functions and in meetings. Even at this funeral, I and my wife were among the first to arrive from afar. When we looked around, we realized that no one knew us. Our friend was busy inside a nearby house assisting with the funeral arrangements.
As we were wondering where to sit, a lady usher who had never seen us before welcomed us and led both of us to a front seat in a tent that was half full of mourners and the worship choir. Soon the tent became full and there was not a single vacant seat.
Since more dignified persons were arriving and had nowhere to sit, the MC did the unexpected. He announced that the sitting was to be re-arranged. He humbly pleaded with all of us on the front row to move to the third row. I am a person who does not want to enter into arguments, so I gestured to my wife that we move as instructed.
God comes to my new location.
After settling in the seat on the third row, I felt so bad that I and my wife had been treated this way. I did not realize that God was monitoring my heart from Heaven. Then suddenly something happened. I felt an abrupt presence of God’s Spirit. A voice that my wife and other persons seated near me never heard directed me to open the Bible I was holding in my hands.
I obeyed and randomly opened the Bible I was holding. The page I randomly opened had Philippians chapter 2. As I was wondering what to read, something supernatural happened. Verse 3 abruptly enlarged and gently flew out of the page into my eyes. It was like beautiful butterfly lifting off a multicolored flower! This verse read as follows:
“Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.” Philippians 2:3
All of a sudden I felt peace and joy in my heart. God had given me medicine that took away my pride! Since then all my pride vanished as I have always esteemed others to be better than myself.
God’s medicine for pride.
So, there you are. The medicine God has for all Christians is found in the Bible book of Philippians chapter 2 verse 3. If you do what God tells you in this Scripture, you will always be at peace and will never be proud again in your life.
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